Kilcormac-Killoughey will contest their third Leinster senior club hurling final in six seasons after they recorded a landslide win over Mount Leinster Rangers of Carlow yesterday afternoon, but a straight red card to county midfielder Cillian Kiely will be a huge blow to their chances of upsetting All-Ireland champions Cuala on Sunday week.

John Fahey was present at the Convention Centre when David Burke’s name was called out at left corner-forward on the 2012 All Star team.

2010 All-Ireland-winning manager Liam Sheedy is to spearhead the search for the new Offaly senior hurling manager.

Three of the four provincial chairmen have backed the GAA calendar year workgroup’s call to provide All-Ireland semi-finalists with byes in the irrespective code’s provincial club championships.

Henry Shefflin has hit out at those trying to ‘pressure’ him into retirement, and insisted that the decision will be his alone.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-21 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-14

Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-21 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-14 (AET)

Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-15 Kilmacud Crokes 0-12

Raharney 1-8 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-13

Kilcormac Killoughey (Offaly) 2-13 Shelmaliers (Wexford) 0-18 (AET)

Belmont produced their best performance of the summer on Saturday, beating Drumcullen 3-26 to 2-12 to secure their place in the Offaly SHC quarter-finals.

Cork referee John Sexton have been omitted from this year’s Championship panel.

Limerick GAA chiefs revealed they took the county senior hurling management to task following a below-par performance in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

Oulart-the-Ballagh and Wexford defender Eoin Moore is unfazed by criticism of the leggings he wore in last Sunday’s AIB Leinster senior club hurling final against Mount Leinster Rangers.

An hour and a half after the final whistle last Sunday, Kieran Lucas was still on the field in Nowlan Park.

AIB LEINSTER CLUB SHC FINAL:

Mount Leinster Rangers 1-17 Ballyboden St Enda’s 3-9

Kilcormac/Killoughey (Offaly)1-18 Camross (Laois) 1-10

Kilcormac-Killoughey, Oulart the Ballagh and Mount Leinster Rangers booked semi-final berths in the AIB Leinster Club SHC, while their were county title wins for Midleton and St Gabriel's in Cork and London respectively.

Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-21 Birr 1-14

Last years beaten All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling finalists Kilcormac-Killoughey captured back-to-back Offaly SHC titles at O'Connor Park this afternoon, while Na Piarsaigh, Kilmessan, Celbridge and Calry St. Joseph's also earned county silverware.

Erin Rovers bowed out of the Offaly senior football ranks after a 10-year spell when they lost in spectacular fashion to Walsh Island in the relegation final at Clara on Saturday.

Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-19 Seir Kieran 2-10

Ollie Baker's spell in charge of the Offaly senior hurlers is over after two years in charge. The former All-Star midfielder from Clare will not be seeking a third year with the Faithful county.

Ollie Baker’s resignation as Offaly senior hurling manager was announced to the county board last night, after the former All-Ireland winning midfielder with Clare and St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield decided not to seek a third term.

Daithí Regan and Johnny Pilkington may have soldiered together for years as midfield partners for both Birr and Offaly, but they’ll be in opposition next weekend when Regan’s Shinrone meet Pilkington’s Birr side in the quarter-finals of the Offaly SHC.

As unfair as it is, Lar Corbett is still seen, both inside and outside his county, as the personification of last year’s All-Ireland semi-final humiliation to Kilkenny.

St Thomas (Galway) 1-11 v Kilcormac-Killoughey (Offaly) 1-09

It may not have been great hurling in this club final yesterday but the weather had a lot to do with that.

St Thomas (Galway) 1-11 Kilcormac-Killoughey (Offaly) 1-9

AIB All-Ireland Club SHC Final

The referees have been confirmed for the AIB All-Ireland Club finals at Croke Park on St. Patrick's Day.

All-Ireland club finalist Ger Healion has added to the criticism of Lar Corbett, expressing shock that the Tipperary ace undertook charity work in New York before their recent semi-final.

There’s been a lot of talk for the last week or so about how many people are allowed on the sideline, a broadside from Kilkenny apparently upsetting GAA president Liam O’Neill.

St. Thomas (Galway) 0-15 Loughgiel Shamrocks (Antrim) 0-7

Tipperary hurling legend Jimmy Doyle has questioned whether Lar Corbett has learned from his bizarre performance in last year’s heavy All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny

Skill and discipline are the main ingredients in any successful side but top class work-rate and effort are also vital components.

Thurles Sarsfield 1-14 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-20

AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB SHC SEMI-FINAL

Tipperary star Lar Corbett has suggested that horses receive better treatment than hurlers at this time of the year.

Oulart-the Ballagh’s Garrett Sinnott has been chosen as captain of the Wexford senior hurling team for 2013.

Padraig Boland is the new chairman of Offaly GAA.

Kilcormac/Killoughey 1-12 Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-11

Oulart-the Ballagh (Wexford) 0-11 Kilcormac/Killoughey (Offaly) 1-12